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Local hero doing amazing DEI work: if you can get on their busy schedule, any organization would be lucky to work with Cheryl Hall-Russell and BW3.

Brilliant book co-authored by a local Pittsburgh researcher! Diversity trainers often say that so much of the work is about better communications. You must explicitly state your assumptions in order to ensure that expectations match. A challenge: people with different racialized identities do not have shared expectations, because they experience events differently, leading to "fractured reflections in a "process of nonrecognition." When interacting, we make "different sense"... of what is happening, according to "different framings of the situation." Operating without benefit of trust conditions and shared background expectations, the problems at these points cannot be resolved by participants. Breached expectations [are] where things do not make sense, [and] are essential for understanding how processes of racialization work in interactions and how they can do so without conscious intent." Citations from: Anne Warfield Rawls & Waverly Duck (2017) Fractured Reflections of High-Status Black Male Presentations of Self: Nonrecognition of Identity as a Tacit Form of Institutional Racism, Sociological Focus, 50:1, 36-51, DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2016.1218215 https://press.uchicago.edu//books/book/c/T/bo50271277.html

Everyone needs to practice anti-racism actively. If you are part of the racial majority that has historically disenfranchised people of color, it can be daunting to know where to start. Here are some great resources for continuing education.

We are beyond excited to be a part of this historic collective fundraiser led by Kelly Strayhorn Theater! We invite you to join us for Hotline Ring July 16 to s...upport PearlArts Studios, 1Hood Media, BOOM Concepts, Braddock Carnegie Library Association, Dreams of Hope, The Legacy Arts Project, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater as we bring together our aligned missions (and you!) for an evening of entertainment, sharing, and giving. Learn more about Hotline Ring and how you can support at https://kelly-strayhorn.org/events/hotline-ring/ See more

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